Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus' arrival for a speech sponsored by the Sons of the American Revolution, Texas' Democratic Senator Lyndon Johnson had gone out of his way to speak against "the hotheads on both sides," admitted that "we're a little late in our section in recognizing that all men are created equal." If Faubus thought Johnson's remarks were aimed at him, he took the fact blandly; indeed, before he left he observed that Lyndon would make a fine President. He was also unruffled when a telephoned bomb threat set cops to swarming around the auditorium...
Scouting for the Khan. In a season when all the streets of Manhattan's theater section seem eastbound,* assembling this chorus line took on a scope that recalled nothing less than the recruitment of Kublai Khan's harem. Like the Great Khan's emissaries-who, Marco Polo reported, graded their finds "at 16, 17 and 18 or more carats, according to the greater or lesser degree of beauty"-Rodgers and Hammerstein operatives went to work in Hong Kong, Paris, London, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Director Gene Kelly and Choreographer Carol Haney scoured theaters, nightclubs...
...this is not the first charge that has been levelled against athletic recruiting in the Ivy League, nor is it a particularly serious one, since Section Eight of the Ivy League Agreement specifically prohibits subsidation of secondary school education by member institutions, individuals, or groups of alumni. There have been violations of this ruling, of course, but they have been few and far between and dealt with quite severely when discovered...
William T. H. Youngren, Teaching Fellow in General Education and head section man of Brower's course, confirmed the report that English 163 would also experiment with an essay instead of a final exam this year. No reasons for the change were given by Youngren or by Brower, who was unavailable for comment last night...
...other than Pasternak's Communist critics, have noted his unfeigned and unwavering sympathies for the educated middle class in which he was reared. In this section, Pasternak takes pains to make his protagonist's loyalties unmistakable. The partisan commander is a cocaine-sniffing hophead whom Dr. Zhivago loathes, as much for his boring platitudes as for his cruelty. By contrast, when a band of teen-age White soldiers storms the Red positions, the doctor admires their gallantry. He feels that he must shoot in self-defense, but he cannot bring himself to aim at the boys who "were...